Speaker 1: Good morning and it's good to just have you online today and we are really grateful as we get to the very tail end of this season of the Open Door Connections, uplifted Kingdom Opportunity.
Speaker 1: We are so grateful to God having taken us through this season and therefore it is our duty and our responsibility to seize every opportunity to propagate and to proclaim this gospel.
Speaker 1: And the Bible says in Matthew Matthew chapter 5, from verse 14.
Speaker 1: It says this you are the light of the world.
Speaker 1: A town built on a hill that cannot be hidden.
Speaker 1: Neither do people light a lamp and put it under a bowl.
Speaker 1: It under a bowl.
Speaker 1: Instead, they put it on its stand and it gives light to everyone in the house In the same way.
Speaker 1: Let your light shine before others that they may see your good deeds.
Speaker 1: Let me share with us three things about this season, and it's about number one to reflect the light of the glory of the Lord to our world that is in darkness.
Speaker 1: To release the kingdom of the Lord to a world in ignorance and, finally, to restore the revelation of the Lord to a world in rebellion.
Speaker 1: Three things, and the first one to reflect the glory of the Lord to our world in darkness.
Speaker 1: 2 Corinthians 4, verse 4, talks about the gods of this age that have blinded the eyes of the unbelievers, that they cannot see the light of the gospel.
Speaker 1: It is important to know that the world is in darkness and the believer is the light.
Speaker 1: We carry the light of the gospel and this light must shine in the darkness.
Speaker 1: We must seize every opportunity that God gives us to share this light of the gospel to everyone, in every place and in every sphere of influence, because the world is in darkness.
Speaker 1: Number two we must release the knowledge of the Lord to our world in ignorance.
Speaker 1: We must release the knowledge of the Lord to our world in ignorance.
Speaker 1: Our world is in ignorance.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in 1 Corinthians 1.18, the word of God, the message of the cross, is foolishness to those who are perishing, but to us who are being saved, it is the power of God.
Speaker 1: To the world, this message of the cross seems to be foolishness because the world is in ignorance.
Speaker 1: So we must shed this light of the gospel to remove out there, to restore the revelation of the Lord to our world in rebellion.
Speaker 1: They're talking about the light that restores the revelation of the Lord to our world in rebellion.
Speaker 1: This world is in rebellion.
Speaker 1: The Bible says in Romans 6 23 that the wages of sin is death, but the gift of God is eternal life in Christ Jesus, our Lord.
Speaker 1: So, in conclusion, what you are saying, that this light of the gospel must shine everywhere, to everyone, fill every place, because, number one, the world is in darkness.
Speaker 1: Number two, the world is in ignorance and number three, the world is in rebellion.
Speaker 1: May we shed this light of the gospel to everyone, everywhere, and may the Lord bless you as we seize every opportunity that he has given us to spread this gospel far and wide so that you can bring in the end time harvest.
Speaker 1: God bless you as you engage and as you shed your light.
Speaker 1: Shalom, shalom.